Anthrax bacilli that reach the small air sacs of the lung are carried by scavenger cells to the mediastinum, a space between the back of the lungs and the spine, where they cause lymph nodes to swell.
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Noting that the invading nucleus was coated with antibody that allowed it to be ingested by a phagocytic or scavenger cell, they named the antibody that causes one cell to ingest another the LE factor and the two nuclei cell result in the LE cell.
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Once the first handful of bacteria have escaped from the scavenger cell that ingested a spore, their numbers double every half hour, said Dr . Philip C . Hanna, a biologist at the University of Michigan, who studies events in the first few hours after infection.
